What's new — June 2026

Find out about the changes we have made.

You can also check our known issues, fixes and what is coming soon.

New Additional Frequency Options

Annual and Quarterly are now available as Frequency options for Pay Schedules.

API Update: Additional Pay Schedule Frequencies

As part of this release, the GetAll and GetAllForEmployer endpoints now return default pay schedules for new Annual and Quarterly additional frequencies, with the existing frequencies, in the JSON response.

API customers must make sure they can correctly process the new PayPeriod values detailed in the New PayPeriod Values table.

New PayPeriod Values
Frequency PayPeriod Value
Annual 1001
Quarterly 4

Coming soon for Additional Frequencies

Support for a Half-Yearly additional pay period is being introduced soon. Customers may want to prepare for this value in advance. To do so, the PayPeriod Value for the Half-Yearly frequency is 2.

Holiday Pay

Holiday pay now includes options for Average Holiday Pay If an Employee's work has no fixed or regular hours, their holiday pay will be based on the average pay they received over the previous 52 weeks (or a average based on the available number of weeks if less than the full 52. calculated in days, and to add extra holiday days at a higher rate than standard pay.

Average Holiday Pay in Days

When set to Days, the Calculation in Hours / Days for Average Holiday If an Employee's work has no fixed or regular hours, their holiday pay will be based on the average pay they received over the previous 52 weeks (or a average based on the available number of weeks if less than the full 52. Pay now correctly applies.

Enhanced Holiday Pay

Holiday pay options now support enhanced schemes. Administrators can set up balances, offsets, and top-ups. The schemes can be applied to employees, and add extra holiday days at a higher rate than standard pay, or days where no payment is made without affecting balances.

For more information, go to Enhanced holiday pay.

Average Holiday Pay Statutory pay exclusion options

The statutory pay exclusion settings for Average Holiday Pay schemes have been updated to give more control over how statutory pay affects average holiday pay calculations.

What has changed

  • The Ignore where statutory pay is present option has been renamed to Do not include periods where all payments are statutory.
  • A new option has been added, Do not include periods that have a mix of normal and statutory payments. This excludes any period where statutory pay is present alongside normal pay.

Only one option can be selected at a time.

These settings are in Edit Details. Select Leave, then Add Average Holiday Pay Scheme or select an existing scheme to update the settings. For more information, go to Statutory pay exclusion options for average holiday pay.

Average Holiday Pay history

The Statutory Pay Only column in Pay History has been renamed to Statutory Pay. The column now displays Yes or No depending on the exclusion option selected, or the value provided on the import.

Other Average Holiday Pay Fixes and Updates

  • CSV header matching for Average Holiday Pay imports is no longer case sensitive.
  • Average holiday days can now be imported for payment from the employee screen.

Fixes and Updates

IRIS My ePay Window integration

  • Pay code descriptions now support a longer character limit.
  • A pay code can now be set as a payroll benefit.
  • A pay code can now be set as an adjustment.
  • The Is Adjustment option on a pay code no longer resets when the pay code is edited.
  • Resolved issues with Postponement letters not sending correctly to IRIS My ePay Window when Auto Enrolment pension scheme is not selected.